London’s 2012 Olympics Basketball Arena Will Make Beijing ‘08 a Distant Memory

Jun 12, 2011 2 Comments by

Many of us expressed constant amazement during Bejing’s 2008 Summer Olympic games, but London will hold its own next year.  The 2012 Olympics’ basketball arena has been completed and the 12,000 seat arena will give London its own cool vibe.

Best of all:  the arena will be dismantled after the Olympics and reinstalled elsewhere in the United Kingdom.  It was build on time and on budget, and will host its first event within two months.

Designers included Sinclair Knight Merz: Nussli International; Wilkinson Eyre; and KSS Design Group. Based on the work so far, we are in for a treat next summer--athletics and architecture will reign!

Read more about our architecture tour!

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Leon Kaye is the founder and editor of GreenGoPost.com and its advisory division, GGP Media. Contact him to discuss how he can work with your organization or event. His focus is making the business case for sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He writes for San Francisco-based Triple Pundit, Inhabitat and now The Guardian, for which he writes about waste, water, and green building. He has also written for AIA's Architect Magazine. Leon lives in Los Angeles, and when he has free time, he enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, weightlifting, and planning his next trip to one of the 50+ countries he has visited. He has an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and Cal State-Fresno.

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